“Proof not argument” 343

Prospects 119

“Prosperity and welfare” 187

Prostitutes, see Hokkaido, Immorality; 56, 114, 132, 190, 192,
  212, 222, 235, 243, 257, 325, 330, 376

“Protection for inoffensive people” 97

Protein, vegetable, 348-9

Protestants 362

Prothero, Sir G.W., 9

Proverbs, see Mottoes; 48, 57-8-9, 67, 109, 121, 123, 136, 141,
  256-7, 307, 315, 343

Pruning 215

P.S.A. 275

Psychology of behaviour 167

Public benefit 374;
  Energy 371;
  Funds 371;
  Good 22, 201-3;
  Health, see Health, Public;
  Public man, Farmers’ and Author’s view, 9-10-11;
  Meetings 24, 170, 238;
  “Public Spirit and Public Welfare” 259;
  Opinion 41, 118, 135, 149, 203;
  Welfare 125;
  Work 303

Pumping, see Water-wheels, 64

Pumpkins 272

Punishment 112, 178

Puppies 345

“Purified in heart” 141;
  Purification 134;
  Puritans 95;
  Purity 151

“Push, push, push,” 115

“Q” 203

Quaker 3, 6, 203

Quarrelling, see also Family discords; 54, 322

Queen Victoria 282

Querns 235

Questions 243, 303;
  difficulty of, 101;
  Questioning, lack of power of, 101

Rabbits 179

Race, Factories’ effect on, 168-70;
  Method of gaining knowledge of another 200;
  Racial feeling 364

“Rael Christians” 63

Rafts 128

Railway 131-2,144,176,182, 208-9, 217, 243, 250, 251, 395

Rain 74, 137, 190, 285, 312, 345, 390-1 (3);
  Rain making 123, 137-8;
  Ducked figure 123

Rake’s progress 317

Ram 343

Rammer 224

Ranks 251, 254

Rape seed 131, 381 (2), 409

Rapids 128;
  Rapid work 317

Rats 150, 185;
  Rat day 126

Ravine 152

Reading 279, 319

Reality 219

“Realm, Wounds of the,” 309

Reclaimed land, see Land, new

Recreation and Immorality 149

Red Cross 124, 245

“Red worm” 282

Reed-covered buildings 84

“Reflecting and Examining” 135

Reformers and Bible 95

Reformer “St. Francis” 321

“Regent” 38

Reid, Sir G., 9

Reincarnation 344

Relief, see Ko, Poor, Tanomoshi; 189, 241, 258, 264, 311

Religion, see Hokkaido; 27, 63, 108, 120, 135, 140-1, 149, 179, 180,
  200, 202, 203, 212, 258-9, 261, 302, 310, 323, 326, 327, 331, 362;
  and Agriculture 231;
  as Custom 327;
  “the Depths of the People” 93;
  Religious idea, the deepest 100;
  and Morality 259;
  Naturalness 99;